Thanks for the plug! It's my belief that it would be functionally impossible to detect whether an image has been "lightly stuffed", for example one in every 1024 pixels, randomly spaced, receiving a 1-bit modification. Such extreme ratios are only possible for brief messages (or else huge output files), but sometimes that's all that's needed. Still, it would be wrong to assume that paranoid regimes have no countermeasures they can employ.
Your point that criminals also use steganography is absolutely valid. Of course, criminals can also avail themselves of grocery stores and restaurants when they're hungry, and so far no one is suggesting we close those down so that criminals can't eat. It's inevitable that governments focus on the ill-use of tools they disfavor for other reasons (guns, private communication, etc.), which they see as a potential threat to their hold on everyone's lives.
Again, thanks for the mention! Hope Stegmeister proves to be a useful tool in the arsenal for freedom.
Thanks for the plug! It's my belief that it would be functionally impossible to detect whether an image has been "lightly stuffed", for example one in every 1024 pixels, randomly spaced, receiving a 1-bit modification. Such extreme ratios are only possible for brief messages (or else huge output files), but sometimes that's all that's needed. Still, it would be wrong to assume that paranoid regimes have no countermeasures they can employ.
Your point that criminals also use steganography is absolutely valid. Of course, criminals can also avail themselves of grocery stores and restaurants when they're hungry, and so far no one is suggesting we close those down so that criminals can't eat. It's inevitable that governments focus on the ill-use of tools they disfavor for other reasons (guns, private communication, etc.), which they see as a potential threat to their hold on everyone's lives.
Again, thanks for the mention! Hope Stegmeister proves to be a useful tool in the arsenal for freedom.
Keep up the great work!
Cool. Very interesting.
WOW!